Slay King Remake (Vitu Sipendi)

Between this song and "Nairobi Tofauti", I've never been able to decide which one is my favourite from Not a Rapper. I really like this song as well because it was so fun to write, and I've always felt that others with a similar upbringing to mine would especially be able to have fun with it. Like with "Nairobi Tofauti", I had long felt an urge to re-release this song with the beat I wrote it to.

Unlike "Nairobi Tofauti", however, I had to re-record this song in my bedroom because I didn't have the acapella track for it; AndyBolo had put in the acapella track for "Safari-con Remake" instead by mistake when he sent me the final masters for Not a Rapper. I saw that as an opportunity to match the vibe of the original beat, and I was very pleased with the result.

My inspiration for the flow on the chorus and second verse came from "Meet the Woo" by the late New York drill rapper Pop Smoke. He raps in a similar fashion towards the end of his verse and since I'd been listening to a lot of his music when I wrote Not a Rapper, it's no surprise that he ended up being an influence on this song as he has been on countless other drill tracks.

S'Bling did a superb job with the beat by the way. It still kinda surprises me that a Nigerian man living in the Ukraine could produce something like that, also bearing in mind that he's made himself known primarily for making afrobeats.